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2024 Thanksgiving Menu and Meal Prep Timeline

* image These past few months have been busy for our family, especially since our oldest joined a local swim team. Between juggling our work schedules and balancing school with practices... we're all pretty wiped out. Although it's a lot of work, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Preparing the holiday meal for our family fills my heart with joy, and I can't wait to get started. To make things easier for me, I don't deviate much from  our first Thanksgiving  as a family. The dishes I make are familiar ones, and the recipes for them live at my fingertips. Keeping the same menu year after year means I don't have to spend time researching recipes or planning a new one. Here are my tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes, as well as my prep timeline for the big day!
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Antique Store Find

Wooden Serving Bowl, Serving Utensils, and Salad Bowls - Photo by Taste As You Go

One of my favorite weekend activities, aside from going to brunch, is browsing through the items on sale at my neighborhood antique store. If the store happens to have an abundance of kitchen items on display (they change what's on the floor pretty regularly), then I tend to linger a little longer. I love knowing that all of the pieces in the store have their own story, a history.




Wooden Serving Bowl and Serving Utensils - Photo by Taste As You Go

Wooden Serving Bowl and Serving Utensils - Photo by Taste As You Go

While shopping for Christmas presents last month, I popped into the antique store for some inspiration. I wasn't looking for anything in particular. I didn't really intend to buy anything. Until I spotted a beautiful wooden serving bowl, matching salad bowls, and wooden serving utensils tucked away on the very bottom shelf of a display case.

Wooden Serving Bowl, Serving Utensils, and Salad Bowls - Photo by Taste As You Go

Wooden Salad Bowl - Photo by Taste As You Go

When I saw them, I knew they had to be mine. But, I'm not an impulse shopper. I like to do my research, to think about whatever it is I'm wanting to buy before laying down the cash (or my credit card). I told myself that I could purchase the whole set if and only if the pieces were still in the store after I received my next paycheck.

They were still there! Better yet, they were marked down from their original price. I took home the serving bowl, serving utensils, and salad bowls for an incredibly reasonable $23, plus tax. A steal considering wooden serving bowls alone can cost you $50 a piece!

Don't be surprised if I start posting more salad recipes on the blog in the future.

What types of kitchen goodies have you found at antique stores or thrift stores or tag sales? I'd love to hear your stories!
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